[Simply Computers] Re: Cannot assign drive letter to second hard drive

 

Hi Mike

I see you originally posted your question the other day ... sorry, for some reason I missed it!

Interesting problem .. you're correct that running the system recovery on your main drive should not affect your second internal drive.

But what to do about it?

Normally, a drive that shows up in Disk Management, but does not have a drive letter assigned, means that the computer does not recognize that the drive is formatted, or does not recognize the type of format.

I would first remove the drive, and plug it into another computer (purchasing an external case, if necessary) and make a backup of all your important stuff.

Then I would put the drive back into the original computer and work with it.

In the Disk Mangement window, you see all your drives and partitions listed, along with the "File System" type. What does it say for your second drive?

rogerX

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> --- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, "mybnprofile" <mybnsfrr1@> wrote:
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> > Hi All,
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> > I did a system recovery to factory default on an emachines ET1161-07 PC running vista Home Premium. That went well, but my second hard drive that I use to back up pictures and such does not now have a drive letter. I did go to disk management to assign it one but that option is faded out and not available. The disk does show in disk management. I forgot to disconnect the second drive from the mother board when I did the recovery. I have read that this should not be a problem though. I hope not anyway. I do have data on the second disk, so I need to be able to assign it a drive letter without reformating it.
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> > Any help would be great.
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> > Thanks in advance.
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> > Mike
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